Steps of the Scientific Method

The Scientific Method helps you understand the method and procedures for an experiment, observation or collection.

Definition of the Scientific Method:

1. Purpose
1. Why are you doing this experiment?
2. What question are you trying to answer?
2. Hypothesis
1. What do you think will happen?
2. Make an educated guess about what’s going to happen
3. Materials
1. What did you use?
4. Procedure
1. What did you do?
5. Results
1. What did you see?
2. What actually  happened?
3. Record your data and observations in your log book!
6. Conclusion
1. What did you learn?
2. What can you conclude from your results?